Coronavirus has officially spread to 85 countries, with more than 95,000 confirmed cases and 3,286 confirmed deaths globally. The outbreak has been called an epidemic. Some people are also asking questions- Are we dead?
Well, no one knows when the world will be freed from the epidemic of coronovirus outbreak. But there are some books, movies and series that predicted the epidemic years ago. Here’s a look at the books and films that predicted an outbreak years ago:
1. End of days
The novel ‘End of Days’, written by Sylvia Browne, which claimed to be a medium with psychic abilities, predicted a virus outbreak 12 years ago. An excerpt of the book is going viral on social media platforms.
The excerpt reads, Around 2020 a serious pneumonia-like disease will spread worldwide, attacking the lungs and bronchial tubes and opposing all known treatments. Come out yet? There is more waiting. It reads further. Almost more shocking than the disease would be the fact that it would suddenly disappear as soon as it arrived, attack again 10 years later, and then disappear altogether.
2. Contagion
In 2011 Hollywood made a film 'CONTAGION' based on Corona like virus in which China was the origin of disease and cause of infection was bat.#coronarvirus#ChinaCoronaVirus pic.twitter.com/v0yovJ9Cyb
— Mudasser Iqbal (@IqbalMudasser) January 30, 2020
The film eth Contagion, starring Gwyneth Paltrow, was released in 2011 and described an outbreak of the virus that originated in Hong Kong. The fictional virus, known as MEV-1 in the film, is shown killing 20 percent of the people affected by it.
3. The Future-Taylor Simpson
The longest running animated comedy series is a master at predicting major world events. Almost 16 years ago, was shown in an episode called “Bart to the Future” that Donald Trump United States to become President. And he also predicted a virus in 1993. A viral collection of photographs taken from the 1993 Simpsons episode is going viral on social media. In The Simpsons, viral flu originates from Japan. Ship to Springfield with Osaka flu as workers not China.
4. The eye of the Darkness
Another novel talks about a virus, the Wuhan-400, which was created as a bio-weapon in a laboratory. This novel, written by the Dean Kontos in 1981, In this novel also talked about a deadly virus that had the potential to wipe out an entire city or country.
Source : times of India ( India Times )
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